Word: marvinism
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...past they are hoping at last to exorcise and bury. By the same token, the Mengele hunters and the survivors of the Holocaust, in which some 10 million people were killed, have mixed feelings about the possibility that Mengele has been finally laid to rest. That prospect, says Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, brings "a sad sense of relief." If Mengele is gone, he will never be brought to justice; his crimes will be buried like his victims...
...whose holdings span three continents, set in motion the negotiations that would alter his empire (not to mention his passport) is March 28, 1985. Murdoch was paying his first visit to the Hollywood studios of 20th Century-Fox, half of which he had just bought from Denver Oil Tycoon Marvin Davis. As it happened, John Kluge, the billionaire chieftain of Metromedia Inc., was also on the lot that day to attend an investment conference...
...cements a remarkable partnership between two self-made men, each long accustomed to being his own boss and acting accordingly. On one side of the table is Keith Rupert Murdoch, 54, perhaps the most feared and grudgingly admired press entrepreneur in the English-speaking world. On the other is Marvin Davis, 59, son of a New York dress manufacturer who wildcatted an oil fortune in the Rocky Mountains. The two offer a startling physical contrast: Davis is a 6-ft. 4-in. bear weighing 300 lbs. and fond of enveloping friends in an enormous embrace; Murdoch is trim...
...case of the White House communications director, Patrick Buchanan, was stranger still. NBC News Correspondent Marvin Kalb reported that at a White House meeting with Jewish leaders about Reagan's Sunday itinerary, Buchanan was seen repeatedly scribbling the phrase "succumbing to the pressure of the Jews" in his notebook. Kalb's report implied that the former conservative columnist was jotting down his own views. Buchanan, who has declined to speak openly with the press since taking his White House job in February, temporarily broke his silence to call any such implication "misleading" and "downright silly...
...VEGAS, Nev.--Marvelous Marvin Hagler knocked down Thomas "Hit Man" Hearns and stopped him at 2:01 of the third round of a savage fight for Hagler's undisputed middleweight title Monday night...